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tracy mumford<\/p>\n
From \u201cThe New York Times,\u201d it\u2019s \u201cThe Headlines.\u201d I\u2019m Tracy Mumford. Today\u2019s Tuesday, July 14. Here\u2019s what we\u2019re covering.<\/p>\n
reporter<\/p>\n
When it comes to Iran, it looks like they\u2019re back at their business trying to take over the Strait. What\u2019s your response?<\/p>\n
president donald trump<\/p>\n
Well, we\u2019re taking over the Strait. They have nothing. They\u2019ve got nothing. So \u2014<\/p>\n
tracy mumford<\/p>\n
President Trump laid out a drastic new plan yesterday as the US and Iran effectively returned to war. The fragile ceasefire between them collapsing. In an interview on Fox News, Trump said the US will charge fees to protect ships traveling through the Strait of Hormuz.<\/p>\n
president donald trump<\/p>\n
Now, we\u2019re going to guard it. And we\u2019re going to get paid for guarding it, a lot of money.<\/p>\n
tracy mumford<\/p>\n
The decision flies in the face of his administration\u2019s own stance on the issue when Iran threatened the same thing. Secretary of State Marco Rubio came out repeatedly to say no country is allowed to impose fees in international waters. Trump\u2019s announcement is a new escalation between the US and Iran. They signed a preliminary peace deal last month.<\/p>\n
But ultimately, disagreements over who controls the Strait doomed it with Iran firing on commercial ships and the US responding with its own strikes on Iran. The tit-for-tat attacks have ramped up in the last few days. And the Trump administration has now formally sent a letter to Congress stating that the war has resumed. Trump has ordered the US Naval blockade on Iran back in place. And in an interview with radio host, Hugh Hewitt, he threatened the country with more strikes.<\/p>\n
president donald trump<\/p>\n
We\u2019re going to hit them very hard tonight. And we\u2019re going to hit them hard tomorrow. And there\u2019s not a damn thing they can do about it. They have nothing. They have nothing.<\/p>\n
david sanger<\/p>\n
I think we\u2019re in the phase of the war, where we\u2019re trying, again, things that didn\u2019t work the first time. But the administration has not made an argument to us yet that this is going to be any more effective the second time than it was the first.<\/p>\n
tracy mumford<\/p>\n
White House correspondent David Sanger has more about what this new phase of the war could mean on today\u2019s episode of \u201cThe Daily.\u201d Meanwhile, while many analysts are skeptical that Trump\u2019s plan to charge fees for ships passing through the Strait will actually come to fruition, oil prices surged and stocks fell after news broke about the tolls and the return of the blockade.<\/p>\n
Now, three updates on a series of deadly shootings by immigration agents. First, in Maine.<\/p>\n
protestors<\/p>\n
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tracy mumford<\/p>\n
Protesters spilled into the streets yesterday after an ICE agent shot and killed a man who immigrants\u2019 rights groups have identified as a 26-year-old from Colombia.<\/p>\n
protestors<\/p>\n
No justice, no peace! We want ICE off our streets!<\/p>\n
tracy mumford<\/p>\n
The shooting happened early Monday morning in the city of Biddeford, just south of Portland. According to the Department of Homeland Security, agents had tried to stop a car leaving an address that they\u2019d been monitoring. DHS said the driver then tried to get away and quote, \u201cweaponized his vehicle toward law enforcement.\u201d But some state and local officials say they want more details about what happened. The shooting in Maine was the second in a week involving immigration agents firing on a driver.<\/p>\n
representative sylvia garcia<\/p>\n
It\u2019s just, frankly, just disgusting. I mean, their story is just almost like it was a different incident that happened.<\/p>\n
tracy mumford<\/p>\n
The first was in Houston, where representative Sylvia Garcia, a Democrat, is disputing federal authorities\u2019 version of events after she spoke with two witnesses. The men who were in the vehicle say ICE agents did not identify themselves after chasing down in unmarked SUVs.<\/p>\n
They say that after the came to a stop, an agent fired a single shot through the front passenger window, killing the driver. ICE has said that the driver had tried to run over an officer but has presented no evidence to back up its claims. The agents were not wearing body cameras.<\/p>\n
And last update from Minneapolis \u2014<\/p>\n
mary moriarty<\/p>\n
I want to thank our federal partners for their willingness to consider changing course to share evidence and promote public trust.<\/p>\n
tracy mumford<\/p>\n
A county prosecutor announced yesterday that after months of resistance, the Justice Department has shared evidence related to three shootings by immigration agents there. She said that included the vehicle Renee Goode was driving when she was killed by a federal agent and body cam footage from the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti. The shootings took place during the Trump administration\u2019s sweeping immigration crackdown in Minnesota at the beginning of the year.<\/p>\n
Since then, state and local officials have said their investigations into what happened have been stymied by a lack of cooperation from the federal government. It\u2019s refused to provide even basic information like the names of the agents who opened fire. While federal officials have broad immunity from state prosecution under the Constitution, Minnesota officials have said those protections are not absolute and have already brought some charges against officers for their conduct during the crackdown.<\/p>\n
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A new investigation from \u201cThe Times\u201d has found that over the past few years a wave of Russian spies has flooded into Japan. Back in 2022, when Russia invaded Ukraine, a lot of Western countries expelled hundreds of Russian intelligence agents. Since then, dozens of those banished spies have turned up in Japan, where they\u2019ve become a crucial part of Russia\u2019s war effort \u2014 buying or stealing microchips, transmitters, and other technology that can be used to make weapons. Now, according to one Ukrainian estimate, 90 percent of Russian missiles and drones contain Japanese components.<\/p>\n
adam goldman<\/p>\n
My colleagues and I looked at shipping records. We looked at documents. And when we started interviewing people about this, we heard about this secretive organization called the 20th Directorate within Russian military intelligence, the GRU, with an undercover operative in Tokyo, Japan. And we realized this was the secretive arm of the GRU, which was tasked with finding the parts to make sure that Putin\u2019s ballistic missiles and drones could continue to terrorize Ukraine.<\/p>\n
tracy mumford<\/p>\n
Adam Goldman is part of the team of \u201cTimes\u201d reporters who\u2019ve publicly revealed the role of the 20th Directorate for the first time. According to their reporting, based on interviews with current and former intelligence officials, members of the unit pose as diplomats or business people as they work to smuggle battlefield technology into Russia.<\/p>\n
For example, \u201cThe Times\u201d found that the head of the 20th Directorate\u2019s operations in Tokyo has a cover identity as an employee of the Russian state airline, Aeroflot, and works out of a nondescript corporate office in the heart of the city. And while Ukrainian officials have previously presented Japan with evidence that its technology is being used in Russia\u2019s ongoing deadly attacks, the Japanese government has been slow to act.<\/p>\n
Japan has actually had a long-standing reputation as a kind of spy paradise, in part because of constraints on the country\u2019s intelligence services that were put in place after World War II. But that could now be changing. The country is currently building a centralized intelligence agency for the first time since the 1940s, as it faces growing threats from Russia and also from China and North Korea.<\/p>\n
The Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs didn\u2019t respond to questions from \u201cThe Times\u201d about foreign espionage. But one lawmaker in the governing party said, quote, \u201cWe have a sense of crisis about the situation.\u201d<\/p>\n
And finally, scientists have announced that, for the first time, they\u2019ve spotted sugar deep in interstellar space. They\u2019d been looking for it because sugar is a crucial building block of life. And there have long been theories about how it got to Earth. Some scientists think it could have been carried by space rocks smashing into the planet, since several kinds of sugars have been found on asteroids and meteorites.<\/p>\n
But there have still been questions about where sugar came from before that. For the new study, which was published in the journal \u201cNature Astronomy\u201d this week, astro chemists used telescopes to look at radio frequencies deep in the center of the Milky Way since every molecule produces its own unique frequency. They were able to identify a pattern that exactly matches the kind of sugar that\u2019s found on Earth. It was floating among all of the dust and gas between solar systems, a place the researchers said is a, quote, \u201cimpressive chemical factory.\u201d<\/p>\n
One of them said finding sugar out there in those conditions is meaningful because those same conditions exist across the galaxy. So the sugar isn\u2019t just a clue about how life got started on Earth, it also makes it more likely that life could have formed somewhere else too. And the fact that really blew my mind, the sugar they found out in space is the exact same kind that\u2019s in raspberries.<\/p>\n
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Those are \u201cThe Headlines.\u201d I\u2019m Tracy Mumford. We\u2019ll be back tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This transcript was created using speech recognition software. While it has been reviewed by human transcribers, it may…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58238,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[37882,38175,38172,38176,8,38173,446,38174,10639],"class_list":["post-58237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-japan","tag-espionage-and-intelligence-services","tag-homeland-security-department","tag-illegal-immigration","tag-immigration-and-customs-enforcement-us","tag-japan","tag-space-and-astronomy","tag-strait-of-hormuz","tag-surveillance-of-citizens-by-government","tag-united-states-politics-and-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58237\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}